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Enlarge ImageRequest to buy this photoASSOCIATED PRESSRescue workers search through a tangle of vehicles and roadway after a truck carrying fireworks exploded while crossing a bridge in Henan Province.

BEIJING — Investigators in China said “multiple human errors” caused a truck laden with Lunar New Year fireworks to explode, state media reported yesterday.

“Those suspected of being involved in the accident have been taken into police custody,” the investigation team said, according to the Xinhua news agency.The explosion killed 10 and demolished part of an elevated expressway on Friday.

Early yesterday, state media reported that at least 11 people died when the 262.5-foot section of a four-lane bridge collapsed near Sanmenxia in Henan Province, sending at least 25 vehicles plunging nearly 100 feet.

The report did not identify or say how many suspects were detained, although Xinhua earlier reported that four people were held after documents were found saying the truck was transporting only general merchandise.

The investigators told Xinhua that an illegal fireworks manufacturer from northwestern China had hired an unqualified contractor to transport wrongly packaged products in the wrong kind of vehicle without checking the contractor’s drivers, licenses or qualifications.

“Relevant people from both the manufacturer and the transport enterprise are suspected of law and regulation violations,” Xinhua quoted the team as saying.

The team also confirmed the blast as the cause of the bridge collapse, even as skeptical Internet users cast doubt on the quality of the bridge, which opened in 2001, passing a safety inspection in 2011.